World flood myths and glacial melting
-Kristin Samples http://geoinfo.amu.edu.pl/wpk/pe/a/harbbook/c_viii/chap08.html

http://www.mythstories.com/talkI.html

http://www.stenudd.com/myth/logics3.htm

Maximum ice extent at the Last Glacial Maximum
*During the last
Glacial Maximum sea levels were 120
– 130 meters higher.
*Starting c. 18,000 years ago sea levels began to rise.
*Most of the glacial melt had occurred by c.8,000 years ago.
*Changes would not have been regular.
*The immense weight of the ice sheets depressed the continental plates.
http://www-qpg.geog.cam.ac.uk/lgmextent.html

During the Last Glacial Maximum the currently submerged darker areas were dry land.
http://www.theosophy-nw.org/theosnw/science/sc-harry.htm

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Where silts formed dikes that protected low-lying areas, a winter storm or sudden spurt of melt water thousands of miles away could raise ocean levels, resulting in catastrophic erosion and massive flooding.
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The ocean could fill vast basins in a matter of weeks or months.
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During glacial times a level plain joined Australia with New Guinea.
C. 12,000 – 10,000 years ago, it was flooded to form the Gulf of
Carpentaria.
Aboriginal myths of ‘dream time’ incorporate a few great flood myths, where floods would not have been common in the region.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/images/asia/indonesia/big_map.jpg
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During glacial times a huge peaty swap land joined Malaya, Sumatra,
Java and southwestern
Bornei to the Asia mainland.
The present land masses were high lands framing a vast wetland ecosystem now covered by the southern parts of the South China Sea.
This flood was possibly onset by a catastrophic monsoon.

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During the glacial maximum
Proglacial lakes formed and shifted in the area of the great lakes.
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The lakes drainage system sometimes shifted south into the Mississippi system, sometimes into the Artic or http://earth.usc.edu/geol150/evolution/pleistocene.html
east into the
Atlantic.

http://www.geog.umn.edu/courses/5441/agassi2.gif
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Agassiz created a series of great floods as ice-dam configurations failed , pumping massive pulses of freshwater into the worlds oceans.

l http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Glossary/Glaciers/IceSheets/Maps/map_missoula_floods.htm
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The Missoula
Floods of
Washington were also caused by breaking ice damns, resulting in channeled scablands.

http://earth.usc.edu/geol150/evolution/pleistocene.html
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Lake Ojibway reached its largest point c. 8,500 yrs ago, when it joined with Lake Agassiz.
Its outlet was blocked by glaciers; so, it drained by tributaries into St.
Lawrence far to the South.
C. 8,300 – 7,700 years ago the melting ice damn over the Hudson
Bay’s southwestern most extension narrowed to the point that pressure and buoyancy lifted it free and the ice damn failed.
The lake was 250 meters above sea level.
Its volume is estimated to have been 163,000 cubic kilometers, more than enough water to cover flattened out Antarctica with a sheet of water 10 meters deep.
The lake was added to the worlds oceans in a matter of months .

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Hypothesis presented by the
Austrian Prof of Geology Dr.
Alexander Tollman.
The Hypothesis states that one or several bolides struck the earth c. 7640 BCE. A much larger instance was suppose to have occurred c.
3150 BCE.
The first would have explained the extinction of mega fauna, while the second would account for the global flood myths.
http://www.aeiou.at/aeiou.encyclop.data.image.t/t580717a.jpg

http://wwwcurator.jsc.nasa.
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The positive scientific evidence includes stratigraphic studies of tektites, dendrochronoloy, and ice cores
(from http://www.visitdeadends.com/images/lopez_meteors.jpg
Camp Century, Greenland) containing hydrocholoric and sulphuric acid
(indicating an energetic ocean strike) as well as nitric acids
(caused by extreme heating of air).

Badwater Basin, the lowest point in North America
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C. 7,640 BCE is consistent with the dates of the formation of a number of salt flats in
North America and in Asia.
http://myweb.dal.ca/mrygel/photogallery2.htm

http://www.theosophy-nw.org/theosnw/world/general/ge-jvmj.htm
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To/Tollmanns_hypothetical_bolide.htm
http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v23/i1/flo od.asp
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html
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http://www.baghdadmuseum.org/ref/index.php?title
=Deluge_(prehistoric)